Games Inbox: Grand Theft Auto V, Square Enix meet, and eBay envy

Today’s evening Inbox is still arguing over whether Assassin’s Creed III is anti-British, as another reader falls prey to the Slender Man. To join in with the discussions yourself email us at
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GTA V – when will we know more?

Whatever happened to GTA?Am I the only one getting a bit impatient with Rockstar right now? It’s well over half a year now since they announced Grand Theft Auto V and we haven’t seen anything about the game since that first trailer. I know they like to think themselves above normal companies in terms of previews and that sort of thing but I think they’re playing things too quiet.I don’t think there’s any way Grand Theft Auto V is going to dislodge Call Of Duty or Battlefield as the top games, especially if it’s still set in a city we’ve all seen before. Things have moved on a lot since the good old days of San Andreas and although I count myself as I fan I’m worried we’re just going to get better graphics, longer cut scenes, and the same old ‘good enough’ gameplay.Is there any chance the game is going to be released not or are we looking at Rockstar’s usual April/May release schedule again?PaulieGC:There’s a small chance the game will be at Gamescom next month – Rockstar are rumoured to be preparing something – but we would be surprised if it was released this year.Inbox meetThere is a Square Enix 3DS community day this Thursday in London, with Square Enix’s new three 3DS games on show, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts 3D and Heroes Of Ruin. It’s free and there are two sessions available (I am attending the later one).You can find more details on the Theatrhythm Facebook page . I only got a 3DS last week so I could play this game. If anybody is interested in meeting up there message me through my PSN ID. I might even do a Reader’s Feature on it.eyetunes (PSN ID)GC:Please do!

Undead fetishTo GC regarding zombies, I have never had a fetish and cannot understand the obsession with them. Zombies don’t make a good game for me but if a good game has zombies in it then fair enough, a good game will always interest me. Left 4 Dead and the early Resident Evil games were excellent. DayZ sounds like a truly unique experience or perhaps not if you count people trying to kill you in Left 4 Dead 2.Learning to survive outright would be the ideal solution, however PC gamers are very experienced at coordinating team-based attacks so trustworthy companions are a necessity I am sure. So I now have to give Journey, The Walking Dead, and DayZ a try? Keep em’ coming. I would like to get GC’s take on Dishonored, is it shaping up to be an excellent game or is it encompassing too much?G1OAT (gamertag/Steam ID/Origin ID)GC:Through a series of scheduling accidents we’ve still had no chance to go hands-on with Dishonored. But it certainly looks good, from the footage we’ve seen.

It only hurts when I playGC, I’d like to share a tale that occurred very recently. A patient in their late 50s came to me presenting with a relatively minor injury and after discussing aggravating factors he sheepishly admitted playing computer (video?!) games, as if it was as socially unacceptable as being an Estate Agent. Being a gamer I asked with interest what he plays and after divulging my current playlist he appeared more comfortable discussing this seemingly taboo interest. On his departure and after a quick chat about upcoming titles, his parting words were ‘we will grow up one day’. It is such a shame that gaming can be so stigmatised that people are almost self deprecating when admitting to playing games and especially when age is concerned.[redacted] (gamertag)PS: GC guys, I have included no identifying details as to avoid any confidentiality breaches, but feel free to censor as required!World’s best museumI wished I had the money to buy all of those games from that massive eBay auction. Yes, you are correct – it would be a travesty if it got sold off separately. I would add to the collection to include other formats and build a museum so that everybody can appreciate the collection… I really need to get a life.Alek KazamAce suggestionMy dad just got a Samsung Galaxy Ace, the phone seems quite good but I have an iPhone. Could GC and its readers recommend some good apps on Android? They don’t all have to be games, can I get TV catch-up and things like that on it like my iPhone? Thanks in advance by the way, been loving the Perry the Platypus from Phineas and Ferb game on iPhone.SAMFISHERMANGC:We can’t help with Android apps, but we’re sure the readers can.Scared of missing outOh dear God, I just played Slender in a darkened room with headphones. Needless to say it scared the life out of me – genuinely the first time I’ve felt goosebumps from playing a game. It’s a shame the rest of the game is so simplistic but I suppose you can’t complain for free. On a different note, when does that Olympics game I keep seeing between shows on BBC1 come out? It looks ace.Discomike1 (gametag)GC:We’ve not seen the advert, whatever it is, but the only official Olympics game (that isn’t Mario & Sonic) is London 2012. Unless the BBC have some sort of browser-based mini-game.Fair warningI’d like to thank Sam for the warning about the latest PlayStation 3 system update, which means I won’t be booting up my console for a while because the thought of losing all my hard won progress in Dark Souls is too awful to contemplate. I wish that Sony would get their act together where their online service is concerned. Quite frankly, it’s a mess. It takes ages to download anything and on one occasion I waited for over an hour while it downloaded an update so that I could use the PlayStation Move, which I don’t possess, for a game, which I didn’t have and had no intention of playing. Maybe this was my fault for not reading the small print, so to speak, before going ahead but then again I don’t remember there being any.Gill C.Long time readerIt’s almost four years to the day that my first Inbox message was deemed worthy to go on your publication (Teletext page 694 all the way!)But herein lies a problem, once you’ve used your ‘VVVVLTRFTW’ (add/remove Vs appropriately) it’s gone for good. Is there a potential system GCers could suggest that would allow some of the Digitiser faithful to put those Vs on show again? And is there anyway it could involve ladders?I read you every day, thanks for all your fine work over the years.J de WolfGC:LTR alone, plus the right number of Vs?One-sided storyRE: Mrtankthreat. While I agree that history tends to be written by the victor, that doesn’t necessarily make it right though. Admittedly I speak as a Brit (I am also half Scottish however) but I don’t like to see any nation unfairly vilified or stereotyped, but it does seem to be very prevalent and over emphasised in Assassin’s Creed III. Made more annoying especially when the developers claim the game and main protagonist ‘are not taking sides’, while everything they’ve shown suggests it is very definitely taking sides and presenting a very basic, one-sided and very stereotypical view of it all.I saw the live action advert for the game in the cinema yesterday and I was quite offended how anti-British the new ad was. Everything shown and presented so far portrays the British as violent, oppressive, brutal, barbaric, evil slavers. The reality is, is that Britain spent a lot of money and resources discovering and colonising the Americas and whether anyone likes it or not it was a British colony. It’s only natural for a government to want to stop any dissention or anti-government actions, such as trying to break away from the founding country and the governing body want to try to stop it.The exact same thing happened within America itself with the American Civil War, when the South tried to form their own government and the North had to violently pull them into line, which they did of course. Yet I don’t see anyone vilifying the South, even though they were fighting to maintain slavery (even though they were not the victors). So why does everyone vilify the English specifically!?It’s crossed my mind a few times(and I’ve heard others say the same) that in this case specifically that Ubisoft is a French company. It’s no secret that there’s an animosity between England and France. Is that correlation? Maybe, maybe not. What can’t be debated though is that it’s not unfair to say Assassin’s Creed III is very clearly anti-British with its portrayal of them.Spartas EdgeInbox also-ransWhat’s GC’s opinion of the 3D in Theatrhyhtm Final Fantasy? Having played the demo, it’s the first 3DS game where I found it nothing but an irritating distraction, and soon turned it off.Specters of MarioGC:We barely noticed it, which we don’t see as negative – but it certainly didn’t help or enhance anything.Thanks to DayZ I think I’m going to have to organise getting a PC for Christmas.CCDIs anyone actually excited for Medal Of Honor: Warfighter? I’ve never met anyone that’s had a good word to say about it.PixelcrusherMacca’s writing video game music with Bungie?! This is the man who invented the word ‘twee’! If he’s writing a song about living in peace and harmony and love in outer space, then I’m calling the police – and I don’t mean Sting!Jon EdwardsThis week’s Hot TopicThe subject for this weekend’s Inbox was suggested by reader Bilal Rangzeb, who asks what game have you enjoyed despite it getting bad reviews or all of your friends hating it?Did you know the game had a poor reputation before you played or bought it? Either way what were your expectations before playing it and how did they change afterwards? If the game was reviewed poorly do you think there was an element of truth to the reviews or did they get it completely wrong?If the game had a poor response amongst your friends or online why do you think that was? Was it the marketing or a misunderstanding of what the game was about? If the game’s a part of an ongoing franchise what did you think about the other titles that came before and after it?

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